What is personal identity? Most people probably have a rough idea of ​​what it is, but there is a lot more to it than people think. Very often people in life assume for the sake of assuming, without realizing how little they actually know. On the subject of personhood, there were two great philosophers, David Hume and John Locke, who both had very different views on the subject, but they both show how this subject can be deep. Hume's "On Personal Identity" and Locke's "On Identity and Diversity" are two powerful, well-written essays ripe for criticism. The goal is to find commonality between the ideas, analyze them separately, and explain why both were wrong. Both David Hume and John Locke appealed to the senses in one way or another to explain personal identity or “the self.” They believed that the self could not exist apart from the senses because all knowledge of the world came from the senses and, according to them, the self was no different. Both spoke about how diversity (the sequence of senses/impressions) plays an important role in the creation of self. Even if Hume and Locke agreed...